It’s easy to forget sometimes, in the midst of media-whipped furore over Labour anti-Semitism or Brexit or whatever, how cruel the Conservatives really are.

But there’s always an example of Tory barbarity at hand to bring the reality back to us.

For example:

“A charity says it’s ‘outraged’ after coats left out for the homeless were removed by the council and given to a charity shop.

“Hundreds have been left on the railings of Torquay Town Hall in the past few weeks.

“It was part of a national initiative to help those struggling locally and highlight the issue of rough sleeping.”

Did you register that? It was part of a national initiative to highlight the issue of homeless people who sleep rough.

The charity taking part in that initiative was Humanity Torbay; that organisation is a friend of This Site and we all know we can trust the word of chief executive Ellie Waugh – so here she is, to explain what happened in her own words:

Here’s an image of the notice:

As we have already established that there hadn’t been any rain, it seems the council has been caught in a… contradiction, shall we say?

It is possible there was another such… contradiction in the official word from the council’s spokesperson, who said: “A number of coats had been left on the Town Hall railings over a two week period and we were concerned that they would become wet and unusable, particularly as there had been rain.

“A member of staff handed the coats to MASH, which kindly agreed to keep the clothing dry and hand out to the homeless free of charge.”

Can anybody confirm that this is what has actually happened?

The next part is nauseating:

“We’d like to thank members of the public for their donations and we would encourage anyone who wants to make donations in the future to give clothing directly to charities who offer support to the homeless.”

That is exactly what happened – before Torbay Council took it upon its corporate self to steal those coats and give them to someone else.

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